New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-10
KATKOFF AND TOURGENIEFE
From The Pau Nall gazette.

From The Puu MdU CdZeN
A recent number OF tho husskaya sharina" con
tains long Interesting article on Friedrich Boien,
10 make Russian literature known and appreciated
Germany: In England tho bame q Bodenstoa
his ashahespeaiean Women Characters,n, having been
.ass 10 9S q. En Sns Of n S'
Moscow, and 1t was thore where he made tho ac-
IN q oSoM ns SSo wss at a
time teacher Of history to BQdenstcdis pupils After
SyS GSo sORe the goes on to say
About Ratkon Bodenstedt does not say much In hiS
very reserved and showed as yet Inclination for
the political activity which twenty years later has
P pa% s a% 80 SaTns 1a France s' Belgium
Germany. He had llvcd at Berlin for a considerable
ling and Jacob Grimm wires BCds!nsted Gas he
a nc %sf so1snss charming daashter with
always talked Of her in terms o. highest respect
women Kstkofs mastery Of the German language.
both In conversation and writing was 50 perfect that
sions. and believe it Is only for political reasons
that his former passion for everything German has
sT mar change in several ether rassan friends whose
sympathes for Germany De- rcaso1 N the same degree
We're weak and dsnnited Germans could not complain
OF any unhind treatment In Russia But from the time
forth when Germany became united AMI a mighty
Empire an unfavorabe change has taken place which
nv Youth been fond OF the Russian people. At that
time Ratloof had not yet begun his campaign against
tho reforms introduced by Peter the Great campaign
due 20 desire TO bring about the regeneration OF
Russia by his own powers. will not. however,
touch politics. and can only say that am Indebted to
KatkoH for much Instruction about Russian history
and literature"
OF T0rgenle6, who was on very friendly terms
with Bodenstedt the atter says In one OF his letters
9Iyan Tourgenief called on mo for the first time In
sprng 500 and he made both on myself and my
family very good impression This was also the
case wherever l introduced him. Tourgenien was
pleased with Munich that he repeated his visit
for q number Of years, and became acquainted with
almost every eminent scholar. poet and artist then
living at Munich As author no
very modest and confessed that with his first poetoa
creations he had been unfortunate which made him
for long time doubt his talent and only when, far
way from Russia. he had begun his prose writings
confidence never dcgenerated with him into selfgor
fcaton and he often expressed bis regrets 10 thai
he could not write poetry wei prose- for In prose-
be said, the highest IDEAL never be reached;
for instance Goethe's Faust would be impossible
In prosn" 1t appears that "Faust" was TourgoneG's
BY hoart Bodenstedt remarks on Tonrgenief's re
lations to Nine Variot- Garcia. After Observing
that the lady had nnueNced even TourgcnicG's poi
aics, he continues: "He could not live without her,
aud followed her TO Paris where sho nursed him till
he died. Erotc relations were far as know,
quito absent from this mental union. and this may
serve instance that intimate friendship Is pos
Touryenion put this friendship high above all cts OF
passion, and II h for this that Goethes words
Du so.lst cntsagens' Diay so large par IN his
workA"